Open AccessCOVID -19 and its environmental impacts
Author(s) -
Imtiyaz Rasool Parrey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
safer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0719-3726
DOI - 10.7770/safer-v9n3-art2254
Subject(s) - covid-19 , unemployment , china , contingency plan , environmental science , fishing , climate change , environmental protection , air quality index , geography , environmental planning , natural resource economics , outbreak , economics , meteorology , economic growth , political science , ecology , medicine , disease , archaeology , management , pathology , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , biology
This analysis aims to show the impact of COVID-19 on the environment, particularly in the countries, which are deadly affected by COVID-19, such countries include China, USA, Italy, and Spain. Our experiment suggested that there are significant contingency measures and improvements in air quality, clean beaches, rivers, and environmental noise reduction. However, on the other side, there are some negative effects of COVID -19 such as the reduction in cycling, large waste, fishing, unemployment. In order to build back, better UN has given six climate-related actions to shape the recovery for the future.